Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am much more of a pushover. I gave everybody a lot of leeway. I share the horror of others regarding the failure of people who were on quality assurance visits to realise that they were not where they should have been or where the majority of tests were taking place. I do not know whether "horror" is too strong a word, but I will use it in any event. In the last line of his letter to the Minister, which is dated 15 February, Dr. Scally indicated that he had found no reason to revise the view he took in his main report that "As far as can be ascertained, all the laboratories have performance which is acceptable in their country".